I like my gifts to be meaningful for the recipient to receive and me to give. With that in mine, I’ve assembled a few gift guides with some of my favorite gifts to give–here is an overview and links to each guide!
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When I was in college, I took a wonderful folklore class. Our long-term project was to write three papers on a piece of folklore that affected our lives, or that we felt particularly drawn to.
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We all have special places in our lives–schools, childhood homes, summer vacation spots, restaurants–and we all have different ways of remembering them. There are as many ways to do that as there are people. My mother, for instance, collected matchbooks.
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I’ve loved getting to meet you through your comments, here and on Instagram! I’ve always enjoyed those “get to know you” posts that a few bloggers do, and I wanted to create my own version here.
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As I start to weed out my wardrobe of unnecessary and unworn pieces, I’m taking careful stock of my favorite investment pieces: what I have now, and what I plan to purchase in the future.
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Where do you go to shop when the stores you’ve always shopped at no longer have the same quality of your vintage pieces from those stores?
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After wearing uniforms for years in school, it’s no wonder that I still find myself gravitating towards the same sort of things over and over.
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I’ve always loved those “what’s in my bag?” posts, both from editorial features and blogging in the early 2010s. As I prepare for my black tie event, I’m reminding myself the crucial things that I need in my evening bag after two years of no events.
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Writing this blog, I realize how often I reach for clothes that used to belong to people I loved, particularly my mother and grandmother.
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I lost my mother four years ago (I’ve written a little about her here). I often feel overwhelmed with how much more I still had to learn from her and ask her. And I feel like I’ve been losing her gradually, more and more, the more time passes. So, lately, I’ve been trying to get to know her again.
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